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brindusab1.bsky.social @brindusab1.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

🌷🥂🌷Happy Birthday🌷🥂🌷 Georgia O'Keefe "I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way... things I had no words for." Black Hills II 1944

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brindusab1.bsky.social @brindusab1.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

🎉🥂🎉Georgia O'Keefe🎉🥂🎉 🐈🐈‍⬛🐈Cat lover extraordinaire🐈🐈‍⬛🐈

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brindusab1.bsky.social @brindusab1.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

💐🥂💐Happy Birthday💐🥂💐 🌻CLAUDE MONET🌻 "Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love." Self-portrait in his Studio 1884

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Maria Alves @blue-dreamer953.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Cher Romanciere, pintado em Paris, 2015 Juarez Machado 🖌️

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Maria Alves @blue-dreamer953.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Claude Monet🖌️ - La Pointe de la Hève at Low Tide "To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at". CM Good afternoon dear Brindusa, happy friday

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Michael @mdstamper.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

“Departing for the Promenade (Will You Go Out with Me, Fido?)” by Alfred-Émile-Léopold Stevens (Belgian) - Oil on canvas / 1859 - Philadelphia Museum of Art (Pennsylvania) #WomenInArt #DogArt #artText #art #AlfredStevens #BlueskyArt #PhiladelphiaMuseumOfArt #19thCenturyArt #BelgianArtist #FashionArt

A young, light-skinned woman stands in a narrow Parisian doorway, paused mid-step as she prepares to go out. She wears a dark, gleaming silk day dress with a fitted bodice and sweeping skirt, its surface catching the light in soft velvety folds. Wrapped around her shoulders is a luxuriant cashmere shawl, densely patterned with curving paisley forms in reds, golds, and cool blues that spill down her front like a second garment. Her brown hair is close to her head, framing a composed, thoughtful face turned slightly toward us, her gaze lowered but aware as she looks back over her right shoulder. One hand rests on a bright metal door handle, holding the threshold between interior and street. At her feet, a small white lapdog, Fido, looks up attentively on the polished floor, its pink ribbon collar echoing the refinement of its mistress. Behind them, pale walls, a framed picture, and the edge of an upholstered seat suggest an elegant yet tightly bounded domestic space.

Belgian artist Alfred Stevens turns this moment of departure into a quiet meditation on modern femininity under the French Second Empire. Wealth and status are signaled less by jewelry than by textiles, especially the coveted Kashmiri-style shawl that dominates the composition and speaks to the reach of global trade into Parisian interiors. The woman becomes almost a living mannequin for luxury, yet her slight hesitation and inward-looking expression suggest emotions that cannot be read from fashion alone.

Painted in 1859, soon after Stevens settled permanently in Paris, the work marks his shift from earlier social-realist subjects to the intimate genre scenes of elegant women. Trained in the realist tradition and inspired by Dutch and Flemish painters, he brought enamel-smooth precision to scenes of contemporary life, using interiors and clothing to reveal social codes. Here, a bourgeois woman’s movements are carefully staged, even as she stands on the brink walking into an unseen modern city.

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Anieska @anieska.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Happy Caturday 😻 "I believe that cats are spirits come to earth. A cat, I am convinced, could walk on a cloud." ✍️ Jules Verne (1828-1905) French writer 🎨 Henriëtte Ronner-Knip Dutch, Belgian, (1821-1909) "Immodest", 1897. Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp, Belgium.| #caturday #catlovers #cats

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Anieska @anieska.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Happy Saturday 🌸 “When the grapes are ripe, under a clear and mild sky, At dawn, halfway up the hillside, a strange crowd laughs: For then, in the vineyard and no longer in the barn, Masters and servants, joyful, all gather.” ✍️ Aloysius Bertrand (1807-1841) 🎨 Joy Pane Chinese Artist “The Grapes”

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Anieska @anieska.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Happy Friday 😀☀️🎶 I have a bluebird in my heart, A charming creature, So cute that its waistband Is no thicker than a hair. ✍️ Alphonse Daudet, (1840-1897), "The Bluebird" 📷 Nilesh Lungare

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Anna M. Thane @annamthane.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

The moon and I we are thinking of you

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Klaus Herdepe @klausherdepe.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Guten Morgen! Aimé Barraud (1902–1954) 🎨 🇨🇭 Silberdisteln im Glaskrug 🖼️ #FlowerFriday #ArtHistory #Stilllife #BskyArt #NeueSachlichkeit

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Maria Alves @blue-dreamer953.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Foi a 11 de novembro que São Martinho foi sepultado em Tours, a sua terra natal e é por esse motivo que a data foi a escolhida para celebrar o Dia de São Martinho. Além de Portugal, também outros países festejam este dia. Em França e Itália, à semelhança de Portugal, comem-se castanhas assadas.🌰🌰🌰

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brindusab1.bsky.social @brindusab1.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

🕊🍁🕊Peaceful Thursday🕊🍁🕊 "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." Albert Einstein Winslow Homer ( 1836-1910 ) Driftwood 1909

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Klaus Herdepe @klausherdepe.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Guten Morgen! Fedor Encke, * 13.11.1851 in Berlin; † 9.11.1926 in Bad Sachsa, war ein deutscher Porträt- und Genremaler 🎨 🇩🇪 Portrait einer jungen Dame in schwarzem Kleid, ca. 1900 🖼️ #OTD #ArtHistory #PortraitPainting #BskyArt #History

Portrait einer jungen Dame in schwarzem Kleid

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Maria Alves @blue-dreamer953.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

The Gale by Winslow Homer🖌️ Highest-quality art reproduction Good morning dear Brindusa, a great Master, a great quote...I prefer the second way of life 🙏 I'll review my settings, especially since I changed phones... that might be the problem🤔 Have a nice day 🫂 ☔ 💨 🍂 🍁

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Anna Saba©️ @annasaba78.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Sì, che si sappia: non c’è creatura che non sia un popolo. Carichiamo in noi ogni cosa estinta, ogni debito, ogni incandescenza nel limo opaco di tutte le vite negate. #VersiPerMe Giorgio M. Cornelio Distorsioni Poesia italiana Queer dell’ultracontemporaneità 📷 benjaminwolf_ Golden Ray

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Michael @mdstamper.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

"Isabella (Young Woman with a Fan)" by Simon Maris (Dutch) - Oil on canvas / 1906 - Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam, Netherlands) #WomenInArt #art #artText #artwork #BlueskyArt #SimonMaris #Maris #Rijksmuseum #DutchArt #portrait #DutchArtist #AmsterdamArt #ArtOfTheDay #PortraitofaGirl #arte #GenrePainting

Painted in Maris’s Amsterdam studio around 1906, this portrait once circulated under vague or openly racist titles that treated its sitter as an anonymous type rather than an individual. Later research in the artist’s archive including letters, photographs, and notes revealed that Maris himself repeatedly wrote her name as “Isabella,” prompting the Rijksmuseum to restore that title and center her identity.

A young Black girl of about twelve or thirteen sits turned slightly toward us in a deep, cushioned armchair with gilded armrests carved as goat heads. She has warm brown skin, dark eyes, and tight curls that spill from beneath an enormous white bonnet trimmed with soft pink-red flowers and gauzy ribbons. Her blue-green satin dress shimmers with quick, loose strokes, its bodice and sleeves edged in pale lace. She holds open a pale gold folding fan with her right hand as her left fingertips rest on the fan’s tassel. A slim bracelet circles left her wrist and a small ring glints on her finger. Behind her, a tall mirror catches the back of her bonnet and dress so we see her twice at once, while the surrounding studio of dark wood, patterned upholstery, and a glimpse of rug falls into a warm brown haze that makes her face, fan, and costume seem to almost glow.

These days, Isabella is read as a carefully observed portrait of a particular Black girl, dressed in theatrical 19th-century European finery that both flatters and distances her. The fan, mirror, and stage-like chair remind us that she is posing in the world of a white Dutch portraitist celebrated for images of fashionable women and children, yet the painting also insists on her dignity and presence.

In museum galleries and print reproductions, "Isabella" has become a touchstone in conversations about how Black girls were seen and often unnamed in European art, and how reclaiming a sitter’s name can shift an entire story.

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Klaus Herdepe @klausherdepe.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Peter Becker, * 10.11.1828 in Frankfurt am Main; † 18.8.1904 in Soest, war ein deutscher Landschafts- und Genremaler, Radierer und Lithograph 🎨 🇩🇪 Der Dom, der Fischmarkt und die Partie am Leinwandhaus nach der Saalgasse in Frankfurt am Main, 1860 🖼️ #OTD #ArtHistory #History #BskyArt #lithograph

Der Dom, der Fischmarkt und die Partie am Leinwandhaus nach der Saalgasse in Frankfurt am Main, 1860, aus: Peter Becker: Bilder aus dem alten Frankfurt. Prestel, Frankfurt am Main circa 1880.

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Klaus Herdepe @klausherdepe.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Guten Morgen! Paul Signac, * 11.11.1863 in Paris; † 15.8.1935 ebd., war ein französischer Maler und Graphiker 🎨 🇫🇷 Die Dame mit dem orangefarbenen Schirm, 1893 🖼️ Musée d'Orsay 🏛️ #OTD #ArtHistory #BskyArt #Museum #Pointillism #History

Die Dame mit dem orangefarbenen Schirm, 1893, im Profil mit markanter Nase und kurzen dunkelblonden Haaren mit einem Dutt und gekräuseltem Pony in der Tracht von 1893, sie trägt eine türkisfarbene Bluse mit großen Keulenärmeln und einem lilafarbenen Rock im Hintergrund des leicht grünen Hintergrundes ist eine Pflanze zu sehen. Das Ganze ist im Stil des neoimpressionistischen Pointillismus gemalt.

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Anieska @anieska.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Happy Tuesday 🌸🌹🌷 “Each of us, like a treasure, keeps deep within our soul The favorite fragrance of some beloved flower, And in all our thoughts, even amidst the darkest drama, This distant memory diffuses its freshness” ✍️ Antoine de Latour (1808-1881) 🎨 Odilon Redon (1840-1916) “Vase of Flowers”

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Anieska @anieska.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Fyodor Dostoevsky 💖🌹 Born in Moscow November 11, 1821 "One must first learn to live oneself before lecturing others!" Memoirs Written in Underground (1864)

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Léo @leoauteur.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Images rares d'un #ours polaire se nourrissant d'un #cachalot dans l' #Arctique www.nationalgeographic.fr/video/animau...

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Maria Alves @blue-dreamer953.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

#ArtePortuguesa Museu de Aveiro,Convento de Sta Joana 🇵🇹📷

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Maria Alves @blue-dreamer953.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Les Elegantes a la Bagatelle, c. 1919-20 (guache sobre papel) Raoul Dufy 🖌️ Buenas tardes Agustín 🙏☁️🌰🍂

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Klaus Herdepe @klausherdepe.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Guten Morgen! Paul Sérusier, * 9.11.1864 in Paris; † 7.10.1927 in Morlaix, Département Finistère, war ein französischer Maler und Begründer der Künstlergruppe Nabis 🎨 🇫🇷 Unterholz (Le Huelgoate) 🖼️ Musée Toulouse-Lautrec 🏛️ #OTD #ArtHistory #LandscapePainting #Nabis #BskyArt #History #Museum

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brindusab1.bsky.social @brindusab1.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

❄️🕊❄️Peaceful Sunday❄️🕊❄️ James Holland ( 1799-1870 ) Venice Claudio Monteverdi/Magnificat youtu.be/RajAq0Yd-s4?...

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Ira @thejazzsoul.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong “Dream a Little Dream of Me” youtu.be/OAVZuSoP8dk?... #Jazz #Music #JazzSky #MusicSky #NowPlaying

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Anieska @anieska.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Happy Monday ☀️ “The harlequin has stripped naked And in the pond mirrors her body Sorcerers from Bohemia A few fairies and enchanters Having plucked a star from the sky” ✍️ Guillaume Apollinaire, (1880-1918) 🎨 André Derain French (1889-1954) Harlequin and Pierrot, 1924

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Anieska @anieska.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Arthur Rimbaud 🌹 French poet Died November 10,1891 "Morality is the weakness of the mind. Acquired without any reflection, it is imprinted on us at our expense. It is a danger if it is not tempered by reasonable thought." A Season in Hell (1873)

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Esther Parra Valle @bettyblueaesztia.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Polvo de luz en la tiniebla. Oigo pegando mis oídos al mapa vivo de tus suelos que llevo aquí, aquí en las manos, repicar todas tus campanas parpadear todas tus estrellas. La inmensa noche de mi muerte duerma mi sien sobre mi mano con la luciérnaga más sola. Hora del vermut

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Anieska @anieska.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Happy Sunday 🌺 “The value of things lies not in their duration, but in the intensity with which they occur. That is why there are unforgettable moments, inexplicable things, and incomparable people” ✍️ Fernando Pessoa Portuguese writer (1888-1935) 🎨 Renato Gutusso Italian artist (1912-1987)

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Anieska @anieska.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Guillaume Apollinaire ♥️ 🌹 poet, writer, critic, and art theorist. Born August 26, 1880 He died in Paris on November 9 from the Spanish flu. “I wish for in my house: a woman with her wits about her, a cat wandering among the books, friends in every season. Without whom I cannot live.”

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Anieska @anieska.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

📷 Leonard McCombe British/American,(1923–2015) "Dublin", 1957.

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brindusab1.bsky.social @brindusab1.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

🕊🍁🕊Peaceful weekend🕊🍁🕊 "Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time." Marthe Troly-Curtin Duncan Newton ( 1955-2019 ) Seated Figure A

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Maria Alves @blue-dreamer953.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Bom dia e bom fim de semana 🙏🍁🌰🍂☕

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Anieska @anieska.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

“The Child and His Cat” 🎨 John Hoppner (1758-1810) Paris, Musee d'Orsay #caturday #catlovers #cats

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Klaus Herdepe @klausherdepe.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Guten Morgen! Charles Joseph Grips (1825–1920) 🎨 🇳🇱 Gelegenheit macht Diebe, 1879 🖼️ 😸 #Caturday #ArtHistory #BskyArt #PeopleWithCats

Ein Katze möchte den kunstvoll aufgestellten Turm im opulenten barocken Salon des 19. Jh. nutzen, um an den Vogelbauer zu kommen, während im Hintergrund das Dienstmädchen fegt.

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Klaus Herdepe @klausherdepe.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Herbstliche Kopfweide und eine Parkbank, Neandertal 📷🍁 #photography #autumn

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Dr Francesca Santoro @phyllida.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

In my visits to London's museums, I'm always impressed by the many children in attendance. They're often engaged in an art project. I love that there is no cost of admission so all have access.😊 @lightacandle.bsky.social @mdstamper.bsky.social @anthonymajanlahti.bsky.social @tonylarch.bsky.social

Three children sit on the floor of Tate Britain, busy at their own drawings. On the wall hangs John Singer Sargent's "Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose."

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Anieska @anieska.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Have a great weekend ☀️🎶🌷 “What do you want from me, dear little flower, Lovely and charming memory? Half-dead and half-coquettish, What brings you to me? Enclosed under this seal,” ✍️ Alfred de Musset French poet (1810-1857) 🎨 Marc Chagall “Blue Rooster and White Bouquet”

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Anieska @anieska.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Happy Caturday “Cuddling your cat is preferable to dwelling on an idea, especially when it makes no sense whatsoever.” Marcel Ohayon #caturday #catlovers #cats

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brindusab1.bsky.social @brindusab1.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

☔️🍁☔️Peaceful Friday☔️🍁☔️ "Relationships dont always make sense. Especially from the outside." Sarah Dessen August Macke ( 1887-1914 ) Couple in the Forest 1912

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Anieska @anieska.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

March 20, 1995 The Israeli artist Micha Ullman designed a monument in Berlin: A tower of books, in memory of the book burning that took place during the Nazi era ♥️ 🎶 Haendel, concerto youtu.be/NaD-wNyiadA?...

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Anieska @anieska.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

🎨 Mark Maggiori French-American, (b.1977) "Under the Eye of Yutahih," 2023

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Klaus Herdepe @klausherdepe.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Guten Morgen! Anna Gasteiger (1877–1954) 🎨 🇩🇪 Herbstliches Blumenstilleben mit Dahlien und japanischen Fächerahornzweigen 🖼️ #FlowerFriday #ArtHistory #BskyArt #Stilllife #History

Herbstliches Blumenstilleben mit Dahlien und japanischem Fächerahornzweigen

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